March 2012
Got an invitation in the mail today
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Kat & John, I love you guys
see you at the party!
found this weird video today
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the animation reminds me of some anime but I don't know what, I'm sure it will come to me if I type long enough
the weather here has been bananas and by that I mean blazingly hot, the normal for Winnipeg in March is 0 and it's been 25 the last few days and muggy as hell and it's been like waiting for a bomb to drop anticipating the storm that's coming. everyone was saying it wouldn't but after days of heat and damp and thick muggy air to for it to get mild without a storm is like an unreached orgasm, if you ask me
you're waiting for it but it just doesn't come
except now it's raining like crazy and there's thunder and lightning and the trees all around our apartment are blowing around and some weird part of me wants to go run around outside in it
especially since the lights just flickered in here, so there might not be anything else to do
I'll keep you posted
ps the anime is Serial Experiments Lain
Hip Hop Sunday # 33 - Sons of Science - Motherf*cking Bike
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cred goes to Tony for posting this a few weeks ago, though it's just as good today as when I first saw it on his blog and it's applicable because with weather looking like this:
BOOM!
I'm going to be out & about on my motherfucking bike. you'd have to be a fool to stay inside on a day like this.
enjoy your Sunday kids!
Yesterday I saw Father's Day at the Cinématheque
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but don't be intimidated by the fact that I saw it in a movie theatre with an accent aigu in the name because it wasn't as fancy as it sounds, though the Cinématheque it pretty much the best place to find indie movies and film festivals playing in Winnipeg.
but I'm not here to talk to you about the great independent movie theatre that I adore in my city, I'm here to talk to you about the amazing grindhouse flick that I saw there which is Fathers Day. I blogged about Astron 6 waywayway back in August 2010 when they were casting for male parts in the movie and then again when I had to turn down an offer to audition because I had so much ish going on which I am thoroughly kicking myself for it now. Fuck!
anyway Father's Day premiered at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival and here is what it won:
audience choice awards: best feature film
best hero
best kills
most original film
best trailer
best poster
and that's just one festival which should be indicative of the credit that the movie deserves. everywhere this movie went it got amazing reviews (some of which you can read here, here, here, here, here and I think you get the point. there's lots more where that comes from).
anyway you didn't come here to read about what other people think, you came here to read what I think and here it is:
the movie is full of people eating other people, vomiting, blood, gore, gross sex, hallucinations, jackets, dicks, lots of topless ladies and one naked dude and I loved every minute of it. the plot goes from being weird and ridiculous about a guy who goes around raping dads to somewhere totally bizarre and way more "wtf" in the 3rd act and manages to keep its shit together. which is saying something. on top of that it's really, really funny. Canadians know humor, what can I say.
what I love most about the movie though, which kind of makes me a suck, is the amount of love that clearly went into making it. you could tell that everyone involved with it was doing it because they supported their friends who were making something really fucking cool and original. it has the same 'labour of love' feel as The Mighty Boosh and Trailer Park Boys except with more penises, boobies and entrails. which is fine by me.
we took John and Kat to see it with us and John loved it as much as we did and Kat made a face and told me "it had funny parts" and then told me that gore makes her nauseous. but she told me that she knew when the gory parts were coming because of the music that would start up so she knew when to close her eyes while the rest of us were trying not to blink and miss anything.
so if you're in Winnipeg and you like grindhouse stuff and you want to support some talented local filmmakers Father's Day is running at the Cinématheque until Saturday March 24th so pick a time to go see it and then tell me what you thought because the more praise I hear about the film the less creepy I feel blogging about how great it is over and over and over.
and if you don't live in Winnipeg and you want to give 'er a watch, Troma should be releasing it on Blu-Ray and DVD on father's day. fuck yeah.
also make sure to go 'like' Astron 6's FaceBook page and troll the collection of articles and fan art they post there so you know I'm not the only one obsessing hard over this movie.
Today I watched some Jersey Shore
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and don't ask me why because I don't know. maybe it's seeing their stupid faces all over The Internet or information about them getting drunk and fighting or getting arrested for being drunk and fighting or being fat or calling someone fat or whatever. either way I watched a total of less than five minutes and I think this goes without sayingI don't get it.
here is what happened in the episode:
The Situation and the guy dating Snooki both got up and The Situation said a bunch of disjointed sentences to the other guy which made no sense and were only explained by the caption which told me that The Situation decided to tell this guy that he hooked up with Snooki like a year ago in Italy or something and the other guy thanked him and left, then went upstairs and lay down with Snooki and told her what happened and she said that The Situation was "annoying for doing that". then everyone was waking up and The Situation took some other burly guy who isn't the guy dating Snooki up to a rooftop terrace to bitch about how the guy dating Snooki wasn't upset about it and "did he really care about Snooki" and then the other guy gave his two cents and some chick with a bad tan called "Sweetheart" went on about how she doesn't think the guy dating Snooki really cares about Snooki, either.
at this point I stopped watching because basically I don't think I could handle a bunch of greasy-looking people with fake tans and had hair shit-talk each other, to each other, and then on camera over and over and over.plus I was left with some burning questions like
if The Situation is Snooki's 'friend' why is he deliberately meddling in her relationship?
if any of these people are 'friends' why are they having meetings on the rooftop and/or deck to trash talk each other while the other person sleeps inside?
if they make so much money why don't they have a maid to clean up after them?
on that topic, if they are getting paid so much money why do they all sleep on gross mattresses with sheets that don't match?
why would anyone want to take part in a show that deliberately pits people against one another?
and finally: where is the value in watching a bunch of 'roided-up, fake-tanned, vapid, unemployed people get drunk and argue with each other?
seriously people, let's get our cultural shit together. this is just unacceptable.
There's something to be said for how someone treats strangers
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take two weeks ago for example when I applied for a job and got the rudest, most condescending woman ever on the phone who made me feel bad for having a class that interfered with when she wanted to schedule my interview.I scheduled one, but it was over a week from then (yesterday) and she made it pretty clear that because I wasn't going to take the time from my class schedule to go down there that one of the "many other applicants" would be more than happy to take the job.
needless to say I didn't go.
this shouldn't be a big deal. lots of people skip interviews for lots of reasons and I've also been on the interviewing side and though it's a hassle you just shrug your shoulders think "too bad" and move on with your life.
not this woman.
she felt it was necessary to send me this:
You appear to have missed your scheduled 8 am interview. It would have been appreciated if you had informed of us if you had decided not to come. We could have slotted another candidate that was actually interested in coming, and not wasted our time.
so not only did she feel it was okay to be rude to me over the phone, but she also thought it was necessary to send me an email chewing me out for not showing up for an interview for a job that she basically told me I wasn't going to get.
needless to say I sent her a very polite email explaining that I didn't show up because she was a bitch (not actual language used) and BCC'd the customer service department while I was at it. which I will post here if you kids should so desire.
it blows me away that people like this exist. honestly. I don't even know what to say.
I'm just going to end this post with a picture of cute puppies.
No Good Saturday
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Saturday Tyrone and I were bored and it was nice out so we decided to go skating and drinking at the same time, though the skating was made impossible because it was super warm and everything was melting, which was fine with us. Rhonda came with us and we bought small bottles of strong liquor and wandered around like degenerates because what else are the weekends for?
hanging out under a bridge seemed appropriate, so that's what we did. Rhonda went on the ice but I didn't because I'm really scared of falling into the gross Red River.
I was scared for her but I was also full of schnapps so it was funny
luckily Tyrone was around to take responsibility
though he wound up having to switch out his gross wet socks not much later, so he wasn't that responsible
eventually we graced the people at the St B McDix with our presence and chatted with some strange teenagers who were obsessed with getting My Little Pony merchandise and were harassing the people working the counter, so we didn't feel so bad about being totally obnoxious. which we totally were.
apparently while I was using the bathroom at Chez MacDo Rhonda and Tyrone went to the Dollar Or Less store and met up with me at the LC wearing some flare
and around now the funny faces come into the photos and there's a lot of Tyrone squinting and Rhonda in mid-yell, so this photo essay is going to end with one of the highlights of the day which was Rhonda getting stuck out on the river. practice safety kids, don't do what we do.
I like to think I have pretty good taste in music
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which is why I'm stoked about seeing Electric Six tonight at the pyramid cabaret even though I saw them last year when they were here. because they're good enough to see twice. aww yeah.
last year when we went I was in the front row and had bruises from my tits to my thighs from being smashed against the speakers between the band and the horde of screaming ladyfans (myself included)
Dick Valentine said "don't worry about pressing too hard guys, these ladies don't need their kidneys" and Shawna and I were all omg Dick Valentine talked about our kidneys and it was glorious.
some people have asked me if I think it's responsible to be going to a rock show on a school night and of course it isn't but you're only young once and my kidneys can take another beating.
Awww yeah I love Saturdays
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and I get to lie in bed and read on my iPad and drink coffee
and Ford is keeping watch outside the bedroom window
and I get an epic breakfast made for me
now if you'll excuse me it's going to be +3 today so I'm going skating
